President Donald Trump has banned citizens from seven African countries from travelling to the United States, citing risks from terrorism and the prevalence of visa overstays.
From 9 June, citizens of Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan will be banned from travelling to the US - part of a 12-strong list of countries worldwide facing the measure.
Burundi, Sierra Leone and Togo are among seven nations worldwide to be subjected to partial restrictions.
The individual reasons for countries' designations are spelled out in a presidential proclamation , which cites visa overstays for countries like Equatorial Guinea and Republic of Congo and terror concerns emanating from countries like Somalia and Libya.
In a video on his Truth Social platform, Trump said that an analysis of "high-risk regions" overseen by secretary of state Marco Rubio found "the large-scale presence of terrorists, failure to cooperate on visa security, inability to verify travellers' identities, inadequate record keeping of criminal histories and persistently high rates of illegal visa overstays and other things" in the targeted countries.